§ Preliminary
§ 1.—(1) In this Part of this Schedule—
- (a) any reference to a constable (except in paragraphs (b) and (c) below) is a reference to a policewoman of that rank;
- (b) any reference to the board is a reference to the constables' board established by the Police Act, 1919, for the branch in question of the Federation;
- (c) any reference to the conference or the committee is a reference to the central conference or the central committee established by that Act for constables;
- (d) any reference to a member of the board, conference or committee (except in paragraph 5 below) is a reference to a person holding office as such a member in pursuance of this Part of this Schedule;
- (e)"prescribed" means prescribed by regulations, and "regulations" means regulations made by the Secretary of State after consultation with the three central committees established by that Act sitting together as a joint committee.
§ (2) This Pant of this Schedule shall apply to sergeants and inspectors respectively as if for any reference to a constable there were substituted a reference to a sergeant or, as the case may be, an inspector.
§ Additional members of Branch Boards, Central Conferences and Central Committees
§ 2. If the number of constables in a branch of the Federation is one or two, the one or as the case may be the senior of the two shall be a member of the board; and if the number of constables in the branch is three or more, they shall elect one of their number to be a member of the board.
§ 3.—(1) The constables of the metropolitan police force shall elect from among their number four persons, or such greater number of persons as may be prescribed, to be members of the conference.
§ (2) The members of the boards for other forces shall, for the purpose of electing members of the conference, be grouped together in the prescribed manner, and the members of each group shall elect from among their number the prescribed number of persons to be members of the conference.
§ 4. The members of the conference shall elect one of their number to be a member of the committee.
§ 5. The members of the board, conference or committee holding office in pursuance of this Part of this Schedule shall be additional to the number of members of that body holding office in pursuance of the Schedule to the Police Act, 1919.
§ Elections
§ 6.—(1) Paragraphs 15 and 16 of the Schedule to the Police Act, 1919, and, subject to the following sub-paragraph, pargaraph 17 of that Schedule (which regulate elections under that Schedule and provide for the filling of casual vacancies) shall apply for the purposes of this Schedule as they apply for the purposes of that Schedule.
§ (2) Provision may be made by regulations as to the holding of elections in pursuance of paragraph 3 above and the filling of casual vacancies occurring among persons elected at those elections; and nothing in the said paragraph 17 shall apply to those matters.
1450§ (3) For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that, except as provided in pursuance of sub-paragraph (2) above, an election of members of a body in pursuance of this Part of this Schedule is to take place on the same occasion as the corresponding election held in pursuance of the Schedule to the Police Act, 1919.